Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [religions and religious concepts]
5. religious concepts
6. doctrinal concepts

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Events
4. events
5. personal life events
6. births

Anotations

Scope note:

Doctrinal concept in several mythologies and religion, by which a hero or deity was miraculously conceived by a woman still a virgin. An example is in Christianity, where Christ is believed to have been born of the Virgin Mary. For a natural form of asexual reproduction in in plants and animals, see "parthenogenesis."